Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.

What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.